Thursday, October 18, 2012

Lilly entered the Reflections contest when she was is Kindergarten and we haven't seen or heard anything about it since, until this year.
Maybe I should clarify. She won a few awards in the contest she entered in Kindergarten.
The last 2 years though we haven't heard anything about the Reflections contest.
This year Lilly came home and said she saw posters in the school about the Reflections Contest so we went to the office and got an application and more info.

The theme was "The Magic of A Moment"

I did my best to try and explain to Lilly what this meant, and this is the painting she came up with and submitted.

Monday, October 15, 2012

My family (sisters and families and Mom and I) have decided to get to together on sunday's and make movies. The first week we will film the movie and then my husband will edit and put it together during the week and then the following Sunday we will get to together and watch it and make it a movie night.

The movie I am showing today was the one we watched last night.

I got the idea from a (true i might add) story my husband told me about an astronaut who almost floated away from the hub in space and I got to thinking about freaky it would be to have that happen and not grab hold of a pole at the last minute and just be floating around in space alone until your air runs out.

That is the story line for this movie.

Enjoy!!!

We won't have another movie until December 10th. We are doing something special.

December 10th is my Dad's birthday and we have an awesome idea inspired by my daughter's "invention" for the movie!!!!!

Saturday, October 6, 2012

So I started out the day by running. I'm training for the THE ZOMBIE CHASE. It's a 5K. I hate running. With a passion. But running through a haunted house/obstacle course might just be worth it. I'm up to running 2 and a quarter miles. I'm almost there!
Then we went to Costco and Target and picked up a few things we would need over the weekend and then headed home for lunch, mowing the lawn and cleaning up the yard.
The lawn got mowed and we had every intention of separating bulbs and pulling weeds, but a quick trip into the garage to grab another garbage sack quickly side tracked me.
We ended up completely cleaning out the garage, getting rid of 4 large Rubbermaids full of little kid clothes and finally setting up the teeter totter that goes along with the swing set we bought 6 years ago.
Lilly was an only child and 2 years old when we bought the swing set and we've just never put it together. Today was the day!!!! The kids played on it for 2 hours straight and then another hour after dinner.
I love just knowing that the garage is cleaned up enough to pull our car into now. It felt so good to get rid of all that stuff!! We donated it to D.I. so hopefully some children somewhere can use those 4 large Rubbermaids of clothes.
One thing living in a small house has taught me is to constantly get rid of the stuff we don't need or use. I'm amazed at the amount of crap I accumulated when we lived in much larger places. Although there are times when I feel our house is much too small, It is enough and we are grateful we have it!